Closing Forms on Other Form Load

[1ns0mnia]

ok so ive been messing about with VB for a while and im starting to get into it, but ive faced myself with a problem. ive made a starter page for my program using a different form (form 4)

now on form 4 i want it so you click continue, and it closes the form 4 and loads form 1 (the main program)

ive tried many ways of doing this, such as:
Dim FirstForm as new Form1
Dim FourthForm as new Form 4

FirstForm.Show()
FourthForm.Close() ~~ ive also tried Me.Close and Close() ad this is on form 4.

ive tried to exit form 4 on load of form 1
bascially ive tried everything that could possibly do it, but i seem to me missing somthing, ive looked at other scripts and they just seem to be what ive done yet mine are still failing. any ideas?

thanks in advance
insomnia

Sorry for the spelling mistakes XD

[Mitron]

is it VB 2008 ?? if it is just use Me.Hide
(think it works for other VB versions too)

[1ns0mnia]

you dont understand how much i love you

days and days of tedious searching and its somthing simple like that

thankies

[Mitron]

Hehe think bout this... Form1 is the base that keeps the whole app running :P how can other parts of the app run if the base is turned off ?? just hide it somewhere you cant see it simple ^^ sometimes VB is just too logical

[1ns0mnia]

i was wondering, instead of making a new thread id post here but

say if i have 3 text boxes all with text in them

how would i make the program type what would be in 1 of the text boxer? asin choose one of the 3 at random? and on a timer

im presuming this will need the timer, the appactivate (i can do these 2)
but for the SendKeys.Send("") what would i hate to put so it only chooses one at random?

[ReidE96]

Mitron, not always form1. You can also set a Subroutine in a module as the main bit, a different form...

1ns0mnia, you already know how to use the timer, appactivate and sendkeys.send, so all you need is the random number, right?

Dim rand as Integer
rand = Int(rnd*3) + 1

gives a random integer from 1 to 3. Int cuts off the decimal, rnd gives a pseudo random number (based off the current time) which is between 0 and 1, multiplying by 3 means the Int(rnd*3) part can be 0, 1 or 2, and adding the one gives the possible answers being 1, 2 and 3.

Description because it's better to teach than to spoonfeed.

[1ns0mnia]

ok i understand part of it, the integer part of the code

but how would i implenet this to get it to pick 1 of the 3 text boxes?

it might sound like im trying to be spoonfed but im really not, ive tried all i can think to put then

yeah i suck at VB XD

basically im wanting it to choose one at random, and send that one through to the SendKeys.Send("")

thanks in advance
Insomnia

[ReidE96]

Ok, the integer will be random from 1 to 3, right? So put your textboxes in an array (textbox(1), textbox(2), textbox(3)), then Sendkeys.Send(Textbox(rand).Text).

[1ns0mnia]

ahhh

thankies

cant rep you again yet since i did it yesterday, sowwie.

[ReidE96]

S'cool, the important thing is that you've got it working. Give us a yell if need any more help.